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Introduction to the Passato Prossimo

Irregular Past Participles

Special Rules and Uses

Agreement of the Past Participle

Introduction to the Passato Remoto

Irregular Verbs

Conceptual Difference Between passato remoto and passato prossimo

Introduction to the Trapassato Prossimo

Trapassato Prossimo and Subordinate Clauses

Trapassato Prossimo and Indirect Speech

Introduction to the Trapassato Remoto

Conjunctions of Time

The Imperfect (L’imperfetto)

Using L’imperfetto and Passato Prossimo together

Irregular Verbs in the passato remoto

There are many verbs with irregular conjugations in the passato remoto. These are mostly -ere verbs. There is, however, a pattern to much of the irregularity: it occurs in the first-person singular and third-person singular and plural. In the other persons, the endings are regular.

The following table shows this patterned irregularity in three commonly used verbs.

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